Star Wars: The Force Awakens From a 30-Year Coma
…and retrieves our childhood from the garbage bin where it has languished since those prequels that we never have to mention ever again because it’s like they never happened. If you’ve been curbing your enthusiasm until the reviews come in, this is all you need to know: It doesn’t suck!! We want to see it again! Thank you, J.J. Abrams, and we’re sorry we had no faith. Now run to the cinema because you have exactly one week to see it before the MMFF opens (though I suppose it will continue to screen at IMAX theatres).
Read our review at InterAksyon.
The truth is, we went to the Uniqlo-sponsored premiere for the free T-shirt.
When it was announced a couple of years ago that a new set of Star Wars movies would be made and J.J. Abrams would be in charge, we refused to get excited. Fool us once, shame on you, fool us twice, shame on us, fool us thrice, freeze us in carbonite. Four times: that’s not going to happen. So we claimed our excellent Uniqlo T-shirts and chose the ones with no Star Wars logo so we had deniability. (“Oh, this is a Star Wars T-shirt? We just liked the design.”) Listen, after those prequels the bar was so low that if we didn’t feel like bludgeoning the filmmakers unconscious with a miniature of the Millennium Falcon, we would count it a success. So to find that The Force Awakens is actually pretty good—wow. As Ricky put it, today we are 11.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
December 18th, 2015 at 02:48
Your Grace,
Just finished watching it twice (yes, my first ever act in a single day in my entire insignificant existence), Your Grace.
My manly tears shed a couple of times, particularly “that” moment, Your Grace.
My faith in the Force is now restored, Your Grace.
December 18th, 2015 at 13:28
SPOILER ALERT! ayaw ko yung twist na na-encase sa carbonite ang mukha ni General Leia Organa.
December 18th, 2015 at 17:53
ricky: SPOILER ALERT! Mark Hamill as Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant’s Woman as Luke Skywalker.
December 20th, 2015 at 12:57
That “Your Grace” shtick got old within two seconds. Old and annoying.
December 20th, 2015 at 16:22
Edrie: Yay, boyfight.
December 23rd, 2015 at 12:53
Not enough contemporary straight male snarky heroes to emulate to have a proper battle of wits. Closest is Hemingway.
December 23rd, 2015 at 13:43
Edrie: Now you’re just being an asshorn, and not a very well-read one. Wangbumaximus, you may lay some Tyrion Lannister on the asshorn.
December 23rd, 2015 at 16:21
Teddy Locsin, Jr. does not count. Can’t emulate someone who actually was for burying Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Characters from fiction don’t count. Unless I can channel my inner Culture drone.
December 23rd, 2015 at 18:44
Asshorn: You cannot insult us by insulting our parent. He was Binay’s bestie, wrote Macapagal-Arroyo’s speeches and hung out with Erap, and you’re still unfit to lick the soles of his very expensive shoes hahahaha.
December 28th, 2015 at 15:59
“straight male snarky” <— Ang trying hard niya. How old is this troll?
December 28th, 2015 at 22:39
butoygirl: Too old to be seeking attention in a Comments section. Be charitable, ignore.